Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 2 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 3 | This means it 's good for applications where you 're collecting data by picking from prepared lists ( surveys , insurance claims , and so on ) , and poor if you want to enter a lot of text and numbers using the pen . |
| 4 | Where we 're taking measures from the image er such as height width etcetera we 'd have to know a lot about the image to take those measures . |
| 5 | In the following analysis , most of the examples have been drawn from one classroom of 9–11 year olds where we were studying collaboration in writing . |
| 6 | where they 're including things like that |
| 7 | Where you do need to include them is where they have an interface with the rest of the organisation and where they 're keeping records of things for the rest of the information . |
| 8 | We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone . |
| 9 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 10 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 11 | The kidnapper has absconded from the probation hostel where he was awaiting sentence after admitting committing the offence.Since going on the run , Thomas Rennie has phoned the woman 's family to say he 's ’ going to get them . ’ |
| 12 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 13 | After just two years at Max Factor , which he joined in 1986 and where he was marketing director of colouring and skincare products , he was appointed marketing director . |
| 14 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 15 | I do not know whether you are at home or in London , so I am sending copies of this letter to both places . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been thinking , it 's a long time since the two of us went out together , so I 'm taking Ruth for a bite to eat . |
| 17 | Furthermore , although you are losing weight without hunger , feeling better and enjoying increased energy and vigour , you look forward to more food freedom at the end of the fourteen days … |
| 18 | Yes , so , so , so you 're taking decisions in terms of well which are the most efficient |
| 19 | ‘ So you 're adding forgery to your many other dubious talents . ’ |
| 20 | That 's four hundred and eighty , what we 're doing right , okay , so you 're doing trade at the moment in lectures , and er , Bob has asked you to collect some data on er , world trade in wheat and cotton , is that correct ? |
| 21 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 22 | Can my right hon. Friend confirm that our European partners are not losing sight of the need to make the European Commission democratically accountable , any more than they are losing sight of the need to conform to the European Commission directives that we scrupulously honour ? |
| 23 | It was not that he posed any real threat ( although he was discussing collaboration with moderate socialist exiles ) . |
| 24 | I find this useful if I am knitting ribs on one machine and then moving the stitches to a single bed machine for the patterned part . |
| 25 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 26 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 27 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
| 28 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 29 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 30 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |